I don't think spousal support automatically ending when the payor is of legal retirement age is fair. I think a decrease in ss to reflect the decrease in income, that happens in most cases upon retirement, is reasonable. My husband can retire now and collect a pension(which will be more than twice my SSDI). His income will increase when he reaches 67 and can add social security retirement to his income.

I don't understand one of the points in that article that the standard in some cases was to have spousal support keep an ex at the same standard of living. The same standard of living would involve the ex getting almost all of the payor's income. When has that ever happened.....unless the payor's income was markedly decreased after the ss rate was set ?

Have to point out the obvious too.....the $150,000 he spent in legal fees fighting the ss would have paid for 15 years worth !